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Generic TLDs are great for institutions with true international presence. Microsoft may be based in the US, but they have tons of employees and customers nearly everywhere so it makes sense to have a generic TLD. Same goes for non-profits like UNICEF, WWF, etc.

What about accredited four-year post-secondary institutions? Sure, plenty of universities have an overseas campus or two, but these institutions really belong under country code TLDs. Cambridge is in the UK, Harvard is in the US, Todai is in Japan.

So, what's the purpose of .edu? It's a legacy domain. US colleges and universities were a significant chunk of the internet in its early days; for years it was mostly college students and professors who had internet access. Since URLs shouldn't change, we're not going to ditch it, and for uniformity, we'll keep giving out .edu addresses according to the same old policies.

(Yes, a few grandfathered .edu domains don't fit the criteria. There are random institutions like museums and high schools in there.)
thanks I'll add that to the list
just patched that locally, will deploy it next :)
This reminds me of the 2008 Esquire magazine that had an e-ink cover and ad: http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/08/esquires-e-ink-infused-ma...
Don't dismiss Jobsy's (or his team's) contributions out of hand. They knew that an app store was key to the success of Apple's new device, so they made minimal profit off the App store.

What Jobsy did was more than marketing - but a lot of it was marketing. He drove things in a particular direction, which makes him somewhat of a visionary - not just a marketer.

On the other hand, I agree with the great grand-parent poster. What Apple had was not significantly better, just packaged better. I view that as a visionary rather than marketing.
What do you want to know about Linear Algebra?
I regularly see Linear Algebra mentioned here, and I usually gloss over it because I figure that what people want to know is more advanced than I could help with. But a recent conversation, and an equally recent set of comments here on HN (which now I can't find - typically) have made me re-assess this point of view.

It seems that what some people want to know is what I think of as completely elementary. I very much doubt that I'd be very good as a teacher in a distance learning context - I have a healthy scepticism about my abilities in that direction - but there are people here who know a lot about linear algebra, and maybe they can chip in with observations, visualizations, and references to help those who want to know more.

So, exactly what is it that you think you want to know about Linear Algebra?
Average speed checks are awful — I spend more time looking at the speedo than I do the road, as I try to keep close to the limit while not hitting the car in front. And they are always for odd speeds that I find difficult to maintain (just the wrong pedal position).

Perhaps they make sense when everyone has cruise control as standard to rely on, but until then a mass rollout would drive me to public transport. Or is that the point?
I do not have too much time to search for information, so I wrote it.
The most recent I found is over 6 months ago, so comments are closed there, and maybe it's new for some people who then want to have their say.

It's more of a "heads up" as to why you might not get many votes or comments.
Great post, but I don't agree with the critique of "Dickens'" solution.

Using one-step equation to solve iterative problem is IMHO better (obvious speed benefits for large n, the only drawback is floating point imprecision), and deriving the equation requires deeper understanding of the problem than simply modeling the iterative equation with a loop.
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Try Electrum http://electrum-desktop.com/ It uses servers with the full blockchain to verification and has another neat feature - deterministic wallets. You keep the seed around and you can recover the wallet.

With the original client, having the appropriate port open/forwarded helps as well, and my understanding is that part of the slow sync is the inefficient database design. It's on the list of #TODOs.
I would argue the contrary. Tying domain names to a geographic locality doesn't really make sense on a global network (there are a few exceptions -- governments, e.g.).

Why is it so important to know where an entity is allegedly located? The server may not be there, and the entity may not be either, and even if it were what difference would it make to a person browsing the web?

There are about a jillion ccTLDs that let you register a name without having a physical presence there (or indeed, ever having been there at all).
Not sure what you mean here, but I agree largely with the grand-parent poster. Apple are struggling to innovate and others are catching up (not just Android). So rather than try to innovate, they are litigating. In some ways it's a good sign, in other ways it's bad. The market is maturing, but Apple is struggling to keep in the driving seat - and they are being overtaken by others.

In the end, I want what's best for us all. Healthy competition.
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Me too, they are the most imbecilic of IT organizations. And to think its the safetymongers whom ruled the day...
.bl.uk at least is an exception, it is one of the domains registered pre-Nominet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.uk#History
Automated enforcement doesn't catch the most dangerous drivers (erratic tailgaters etc.) and it increases the incentive to steal or clone number plates.

It is pretty rare to see a police vehicle on the UK motorways. I probably see one on my carriageway less than once every thousand miles and that includes where they are dealing with an accident or traffic stop. Our roads are pretty safe by global standards so maybe that is ok and money is better spent engineering out accident black spots.
That's definitely the sort of vision we have for the product.

Full iPad support is not ready yet but should be coming soon.

A bug is currently preventing the code editor from loading on the iPad browser. Quickfire (the panel down the bottom, that replaces the browser debugger) will load fine, but the interface is slightly awkward to use because it is not touch optimised yet.
Oops, my bad. I misread.

However, going through the website for .edu domains, it does seem pretty restrictive for anyone outside the US.

"For postsecondary institutions located outside the U.S.: As specified by the Department of Commerce, only postsecondary "U.S. institutions" that are institutionally accredited by one of the agencies on the U.S. Department of Education’s list of Nationally Recognized Accrediting Agencies may apply for new names in the .edu domain. We thus require applicants to be located within the United States (including U.S. territories and possessions); or to be licensed, chartered, or incorporated within the United States (including U.S. territories and possessions); or to be otherwise officially recognized by a U.S. state or federal government agency (including U.S. territories and possessions)."

http://net.educause.edu/edudomain/eligibility.asp
Pipelines and whirlpools - what code really looks like
Giveter brings an alternative to Facebook Gifts
This is the same with paged content, the user is equally less likely to see the adverts because maybe they don't view that page/scroll down that far.

I'm guessing the issue is that if you use paged content you know that the user has looked at that part of the article. If the adverts are all on the same page then an impression is not proof that a user has had that advert appear on the screen. Having said that if bootstrap's scrollspy can detect when you've scrolled content into view then I don't see why you shouldn't be able to track advert views in the same way.
I thank Mozilla almighty for Firefox' 'Inspect Element' feature allowing me to block that intrusive element full of social networking cruft that was obscuring much of the content. If it wasn't for that, I wouldn't attempt to read this article at all.

Presumably some browser/window size configurations wouldn't have a chunk of article text blocked by an obnoxious window demanding I shill this article on a bunch of websites I never visit, so I figure it's bad website design rather than an intentional retro throwback to 1998-style popup-heavy browsing, but still - if you made that site, and you're reading this, make it not happen anymore.
Has anyone else signed up for an edX course?
I signed up for the CS50x: Introduction to Computer Science course.
> As I mentioned at the top of this section, this VC++ 2010 ‘buffer overflow’ is apparently not a bug and would never cause crashes during normal usage.

That's the problem when you try to track down bugs in other people's programs. Just give the best info you have, trying to debug a binary black box should be a last resort rather than an attempt to help.

From what I can tell, the program will cause memory access violations during normal usage. Presumably it installs a handler to "fix" the violation and resume the program. You can use this technique to make a buffer that automatically expands without having to put bounds checks in the code. However, getting it right is extremely tricky. You rarely see these kind of tricks outside of language runtimes.

For an example of this kind of trick, imagine writing a heap allocator that simply decremented a pointer and returned it. Heap allocations would be ridiculously fast, requiring one or two instructions per allocation. It does no bounds checking. Eventually it will return a pointer to a bad page which will trigger a signal when the program writes to it, and the signal handler fixes it by doing a garbage collection cycle.
And? The specs for the Nexus 7 out-performed the iPhone 5 - even though it was released earlier. You could argue that this is quad-core and apps need to be coded to use quad cores etc etc.
The point is that I don't understand your point.
I agree that Apple do more than marketing, but marketing is one of their greatest strengths .. prior to this Samsung trial at least.. What was a BAD PR move.
"I’m told that the chat logs themselves are never stored, it does give pause for thought" Some interesting scaling challenges there I imagine
Falling into a black hole
They got it in 1999, so were not subject to the new rules.
I wouldn't say massive douche but there were a few things that I didn't like about their attitude. But if you go past that the storyline is pretty ok and the movie overall, which features a few other game developers is actually worth watching.
South Africa has a similar system, with .ac.za for academic and tertiary institutions, .city.za for municipal governments, .co.za for commercial and generic registrations, .edu.za for distance-learning institutions, .gov.za for government departments, .mil.za for the military, .school.za for schools (with provincial sub-levels like .wcape.school.za) and .org.za for non-commercial entities. It removes the need to have a .edu domain when .ac.za suffices.
Apple's tax strategy aims at low-tax states and nations
Another one was alexadex iirc
Doesn't qemu already do this? Is the Russian's code faster?
It's brave to say Jobsy held Apple back - he brought Apple back from the ashes.

Jobsy supposedly passed on much advice to Tim Cook - on where to go with the next few models. Jobsy may not have been against 4G LTE and a 4 inch screen - he may have recommended Tim to go down that path.
Ask HN: Idea for an automatic silent installer for *any* software
Hi,

I've been using NiNite for some time and because I like it so much I was just wondering how one could create an automatic installer for just about ANY software and then it occurred to me that it can be almost 100% automated.

All you have to do is use a software like SandBoxie to run the installer inside a sandbox and then see the files and registry entries it creates or changes (much like how Revo Uninstaller monitors). I think RegisterMon and FileMon can be used to monitor this as well.

I'm guessing file and registry entries are all there is to make _most_ software work after installation. So with this list in hand it should be easy to create an automatic silent installer for almost any software out there.

Advantages:

1) Silent unattended install for **any** software
2) Bulk installation of many different software at once.
3) Anyone can create silent installer with their own custom settings.
4) Automatical uninstaller since you know exactly which files/keys are being created.
5) No toolbar/crapware even by mistake.

I just thought of it so wondering what other hackers think of it. Does anything like this exists? Are there any holes in my theory? Would love to hear what other hackers think of it!

The idea behind it is to create an community style website (that extends Ninite) for just about any software. Where users can submit their own installers for free software (like CCleaner, OrbitDownloader, DoPDF, etc).
And jobsy bashed tablets not long before he released the iPad. What jobsy said publicly was not a good basis for what he believed.
it's funny, we have new standard, so sha256sum, .., sha512sum utilities should start providing us different results - Keccak, instead of SHA-2 :) i'm wondering how the naming issue is going to be solved
What is that CMS i see more and more often?
and there i was, getting my hopes up...
I don't know how, but the Sabanci University from Turkey, has an edu domain too: http://www.sabanciuniv.edu/
Hey, some of my best friends are from $current_unpopular_country!!
oops, I haven't read the whole replies, it was taken in 1998, so i think there is nothing special.
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http://www.landesk.com/products/software-distribution.aspx

LanDesk does this. Used it extensively as a build engineer at a call-center some years ago.
Actually, interpreted code or browser code isn't really ambiguous. GPL is based on "derivative works" not necessarily C-style linking.
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It does; it's just not very common.

Defining mocks manually is my preferred method. I find things like Phake and Mockery to be a little too opaque and hard to debug when you get subtle problems. I think they also add to the learning curve when getting new devs up to speed.

IMO one reason a lot of PHP devs avoid the manual method of defining mocks is just laziness.
Except they don't - they do whatever their woefully inaccurate speedometer thinks the limit is. Since I drive something with cruise control and GPS-indicated speed, I invariably find myself iterating cruise control settings to match with the traffic. As for changing lanes, forget it - everyone will be driving 3 feet of the bumper in front, because the traffic concertina'ed up when it saw the first camera. You'd better be in the correct lane for your exit before you hit the averaging zone, or you're taking the scenic route.

Depressingly, I can't think of a better solution. Driving makes people into assholes, myself included, and averaging cameras are about the only thing that works. Speed bumps and traffic calming simply cause an arms race of bigger and bigger SUVs that simply roll over anything smaller than a mini with impunity.

I suppose they could try the Edinburgh approach of simply not repairing the roads, in favour of spending the money on an overgrown toy train set for the current set of ideologically-challenged councillors.
Airtime building on top of Facebook with no platform of their own is massively dangerous. Don't understand the scale of investment when there's no control. Will take a look at Blooie, bit of an underdog in comparison, but prefer text to video.
Because they've been trying to dilute the term "open source" for quite a while now.
I have no idea who this person is. From what I understand she sued her employer because she claims she "was shut out of promotions" and did (or did not) get fired. Then she used Quora to tell the world she was fired. Her employer replied saying she was not fired, but is "in a successful career transition".

I suppose she was done working anywhere. Who would want to hire someone like that?
[Ask HN] Applying to Y Combinator from outside the US - Some Questions
Hi Guys,

I am running a small startup based out of India which has got decent traction and is promising ;) in my mind.

I had a bunch of questions and I'd really be grateful if other YC company founders outside the US or anyone with the knowledge can help:

1. Lets say I get in and do a good demo day - is being based outside the US going to ward off potential investors?

2. Is it possible if I get a US investor (institutional or angel of good standing), then I can sponsor my work visa? and run my company in the US?

3. Can anyone who was initially based outside the US and has managed to get his company funded after YC and gotten a work visa as well - enlighten me about how it worked out?

I've been working day and night on my idea and just want to ensure I know what I am getting into.

Thanks Guys!
We're failing responsive web design as an industry
One small issue with the site, that may improve your uptake:
The slider moves pretty fast and there is a lot of text to read on each slide.
If you could include a pause button on the slider, or even do away with it completely it would probably improve the useability of the site.
Looks like a great tool, good luck with it!
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I would be interested in the answer to this also, but I am coming from the side of expecting lots probably are.
agree, one step is better, but extra points for bounding for what values of n the floating imprecision kicks in
Breivik is a fairly common last name. There are actually 8 men in Norway who have Anders as their first name, and Breivik as their last name.[1]

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So bitcoins are a commodity like unto gold, silver and crude, and behave the same way. Cool, but for practical use as a currency it would be better if they were correlated with USD/EUR/JPY, food, labour and other things that normal people want to buy.
I never feel useless, it's the exact opposite that makes me love programmaing. You have endless possibilities, you can do whatever you want, you just need a little of will power.
I love keeping my brain active and I always try to learn something from everything I do.
Also I love the users, I love the idea of being able to create something that people use every day and find useful/funny/nice. I think one of the things that give the biggest booster is the users feedback. Those few lines from a thankful user are worth a lot to me.

Anyway what I said might be also because I am in a different situation from you, from your post I suppose you are stuck in a company that makes you do the "code janitor" or something that seems not to add value. I can only suggest to try to find the something in what you do that gives you pleasure. I too work for a company but I enjoy every moment I work, each time a part of my code goes live and works I feel like I did a good job and I find a lot of gratification in it.
I don't know Hemmingway, but given this description:

"No surprises here. Code reduced to its essentials with no word or variable wasted. It’s not fancy; maybe its even a little pedantic - but that’s the beauty of Hemingway’s writing. No need for elaborate logic or clever variable names. It’s plain and its clear and it does what it has to - and nothing more."

I am not sure why he did not choose this style:

function fibonacci(size) {

var result = [0, 1], i;

if(size < 2)
return "the request was made but it was not good"

for(i=2; i<size; i++)
result.push(result[i-1] + result[i-2]));

return result;

}

Perhaps because Hemmingway would care about performance?

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Slightly related: One year ago Javascript inspired me to write the javascript version of genesis:

http://nadamhu.wordpress.com/2011/09/29/javascript-genesis/
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Google / Asus pushed them through retail channels here (Netherlands) and it generated quite a buzz. Demand was much bigger than the supply, especially at first, because the retailers didn't realize there was so much interest in this device. I can't say anything real about the numbers, it wasn't Apple-like but at some point they sold more than 5000 a day (quite a lot for a small country like ours), I imagine total number of sales is around 100k. No one slept in front of a store, but lots of people tried to get one and had to wait a few weeks for the next batches to become available.

That said, I like mine but don't love it. The screen is quite bland and not a lot of apps cater to the form factor. I mean, phone apps work fine if the aim is to have bigger fonts and a bit more screen real estate, but only a handful of apps do something useful with the extra space. Also, a number of apps is blocking either the tablet version or phone version through the Play store, even though either would reasonably work. It's nice as a reader (for anything other than PDF, but reflowing formats are fine) and certainly more comfortable to hold than my Samsung Tab 8.9 or 10.1.
JB is a nice plus but my phone and Tabs should eventually get that as well. Not getting rid of the 8.9 / 10.1 form factors any time soon, though. I treat it as yet another digital accessory for a tech-addicted lifestyle, non-essential yet nice to have.
4 to five mugs. But not coffee as americano, but coffee as strong as espresso
If anyone wants to add Vonnegut or anyone else please feel free to fork my original code. No reasonable pull request refused :-)

https://github.com/angus-c/literaryJavaScript
I like that the entire article is sourced from a Quora question.
Unless the steam process shuts down unexpectedly, or you suddenly lose internet connection, or your computer reboots too quickly for Steam to keep up. Then Steam will decide it needs to ... validate something ... with the online servers before allowing offline mode. Far from idea.
I'm not sure I understand how a speed benefit would be had here, since to get number N+1 they still need to retrieve (and/or calculate) number N-1. The difference between getting (N and N-1) or only N-1 is negligible, especially for large n, unless I'm missing something? It's not really more parallelizable either.
Great example. While the calculator is a great invention, it's also caused many people over two generations of not being able to perform simple arithmetic in their head. Of course, we're hackers and we try to keep our minds fresh by doing simple tricks such as calculating the total value on the receipt before checkout (or the ubiquitous 35% off stickers a certain Dutch supermarket has)--don't we ;) And almost nobody knows how to use a slide rule any more.

And while that's sad, it doesn't make the calculator less great.
I'm curious what value this really offers over existing suites like Dreamweaver and Coda that already offer live preview and site integration. On the flip side, it also doesn't seem to appeal to the vanilla crowd that prefers vim + some file-watching reloader or CI tool.

Not to say it doesn't look neat, I'm just honestly having trouble finding the differentiating factor.
Which reinforces his point for me.
I didn't visit the 2nd page due to apathy.
http://svbtle.com/ but it's for an exclusive group of writers.
Google kills the + operator (2011)
How IT works?